Forged Alliance ForeverForged Alliance Forever Forums2018-08-04T14:24:16+02:00http://forums.faforever.com/feed.php?f=122018-08-04T14:24:16+02:002018-08-04T14:24:16+02:00http://forums.faforever.com/viewtopic.php?t=16536&p=166447#p166447To report infractions of other users, it is recommended to use this form:Mod Report Form: http://bit.ly/2a9Yg5i

This is a short overview of the rules. For any moderating purpose, only the complete rules will be taken into account : this summary is for your information only.

- Do not harass, defame, or discriminate other players based on their sexual orientation, gender, race, culture, religion, nationality.- Do not invade other people's privacy.- Do not use FAF to violate any laws.- Do not abuse by using multiple accounts.- Do not manipulate your account information.- Do not abuse any game bugs and/or exploits. (viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11322#p116202) - Do not discuss drugs, illegal content or pornography.- Do not spam nor impersonate any other user, or take bots names.- Do not friendly fire, reclaim or teamkill allies.

You are responsible for everything you do!By using FAF services you agree to the rules detailed in this forum post.- If you don't comply with the FAF rules, the moderation team can and will warn, kick, or/and ban you from using FAF services.

By using FAF you agree to the rules defined in this forum post. For the purposes of moderation, the english translation will be used, and other translations are intended for clarity & reference only. These rules add-up to the FAF Terms of Service, but do not replace it in any way.

-Respecting other community members is important. You will always respect your fellow community members. You will not harass or attack other users. You will respect the rights of other users to have their own opinions.

-You will not communicate any material that is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, hateful, harassing, derogatory to someone’s sexual orientation, race, culture, religion, threatening, invasive of a person’s privacy or in violation of any law.

-For your protection, you should not send any personal identifiable information about yourself in your messages.

-Action may be taken on a user account without prior warning or notice. You remain solely responsible for your behaviour and actions and you agree that FAF and it's agents are blameless if actions are taken toward you or your accounts.

-Objectionable content should be brought to the attention of the moderation team immediately. Send a private message to a moderator in chat or to the IRC Moderator usergroup on the forums, or submit a report form from here : and the matter will be processed as soon as possible.

- Creating second accounts is not allowed both in game and on forums, unless it has been previously approved by the moderation team.

- Do not create copies of maps already in the vault with minor tweaks without asking the M+M Councillor or anyone they ask to arbitrate.

- Do not create copies of mods already in the vault with minor tweaks without asking the M+M Councillor or anyone they ask to arbitrate.Avoiding penalties applied to you by the moderation team via any means is forbidden, and will result in an extension of the penalties.Helping others with breaking FAF rules or avoiding penalties is also forbidden, and carries a similar punishment.For example, sharing an account or playing with a banned user who is avoiding their penalty will result in a ban of both users.

All of the rules for FAF apply ingame, excluding the english language requirement.

You will not exploit any bugs or loopholes in any of the services. You can find a list of exploits here: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11322If you discover any exploit report it to tech support: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12531You will not lose on purpose to lower your rating, your rating can be reset in addition to any other sanctions that may apply.You will not manipulate your rating in any way.You will not ruin the game intentionally by any means.You will not reclaim or teamkill/friendly fire allies.You will not slow or block the game from progressing.

When communicating through FAF the following is prohibited:- Discussions regarding drugs and illegal substances- Advertisement of goods and services, and commercially oriented material that is not a part of the FAF community or services.- Pornographic, sexually offensive material, and material not suited for a family/office environment.- Discussing or offering pirated material, or links to such.- Messages containing copyrighted material unless that material is owned by the sender or by FAF.- Discussing acts of illegal nature.- Discussing moderation decisions in public is discouraged. Channels exist for appealing processes and raising concerns about moderation.- Using usernames that are offensive or mimicking other FAF users.- Impersonating a member of the community staff or any FAF user, or breaking bots by taking their names.- Spam or content of a spammy nature, and material that degrades the quality of the communication medium.

The userbase for this lobby is international in nature, as such #aeolus is generally reserved for English chat. Quick questions or brief conversations in other languages are allowed, but if asked to stop, they should quickly.There are language channels for #russian #german and #french.

The creation of IRC bots to enhance chat is encouraged, provided they behave in an appropriate manner.

Bot rules:ALL bots must be registered with the IRC mod team before they are used or they will be banned.

The following guidelines should be adhered to wherever possible:

1. Commands should in general have cooldowns.

....(a) Any commands which generate significant output (this can be multiple lines, or one long line of text) should have a ....cooldown to prevent abuse.....The recommended cooldown is at least 60 seconds.

....(b) Other commands may also require cooldowns depending on usage.

2. To avoid disturbing other users, bots should only ping or otherwise directly interact with a user if:

....(a) the user has explicitly permitted the given interaction. This can be by previously signing up to be pinged by the ....command, or if the user launched the given command.

....(b) the user of the command has specifically identified the ping recipient in the command.

3. All bots should make reasonable efforts to not overlap on specific commands. This is to avoid multiple bots responding to the same command. This can be achieved by using different keywords, or restricting access to particular users for that command.

4. FAF rules apply to the bot as they would for any user, so a bot posting derogatory material about other users is liable.

5.The owner of the bot is responsible for the bots actions, and can have penalties applied to them.

Finally, the moderators have the final decision on whether or not a bot behaves unsuitably. The above guidelines should be considered as an addition to the other chat rules.Any bots deemed inappropriate are liable to be banned.

We reserve the right to delete, lock, move and edit any posts on the message board. Action may be taken on a post or on a user account without prior warning or notice. You remain solely responsible for the content of your posts, FAF and its agents are blameless if actions are taken toward you or your accounts.

If, for any reason, you are in violation of any of the rules of FAF then your privileges to use FAF services will be reviewed by the moderation team. The penalties range from being given a severe warning as to future conduct, a timed ban (for a specified time), a total forum/lobby ban (you may still play on FAF) or a total FAF ban (you will not be able to play on FAF). If the matter warrants it then you might also be reported to your ISP/appropriate authorities.

-The moderation team has the final say over what constitutes a violation of these Community Rules, and reserve the right to apply penalties at their discretion.-Warnings and notices from community staff will be sent via private message. It is your responsibility to check your private messages for any notices that may occur. -All situations will be dealt with on a case by case basis.

Testing the boundaries of the rules will often result in more severe penalties, and the boundaries of the rules are reserved for the moderation team to define. Attempts to incite action from and harrass the moderation team will result in penalties, just as they would for other members of the FAF community.Minor infractions that do not justify a penalty alone will be nonetheless recorded and when a sufficient number is reached, penalties can be applied.Repeat offenses are taken seriously. If you do not apply effort in changing your behaviour for the better, penalties that are more severe will be applied, and could escalate into a total FAF ban from a series of minor infractions.

If you feel you have been mistreated or that your ban is unjustified, you can always appeal moderation decisions by contacting the moderation team. The official way is to send a message to the moderation team via the forums, as shown in this picture: https://i.imgur.com/5KPmGJx.png.This link to the report form can be used to report individuals, whoever they are:http://bit.ly/2a9Yg5i

You can also always contact a moderator via private messages, either via the forums or the chat in the client.

]]>2018-07-30T23:32:25+02:002018-07-30T23:32:25+02:00http://forums.faforever.com/viewtopic.php?t=16515&p=166339#p166339Here is the changelog for those who are interested:

Website:• New league tab in competetive (preparations for Rowey’s galaxy resistance league)• Translations of privacy policy and terms of use (french and russian)• General spelling & grammar improvements• Fix for leaderboards statistics

]]>2018-07-22T05:14:22+02:002018-07-22T05:14:22+02:00http://forums.faforever.com/viewtopic.php?t=16374&p=166038#p166038Tournaments:I most definitely do not have the current list of “active” TDs in my Discord. In fact including myself, there are only 9 present that can actually host tournaments.

Since I am capable of providing around $40 a month for tournaments (typically 2 tournaments publically funded) it’s a shame more people aren’t around to help out and give ideas. It really wouldn’t be hard for anyone to present ideas for 1v1 and 2v2 tournaments and get some cash for their ideas from FAF. Likewise, I’m willing to fund interesting tournamenys like keyser’s shared army tournament too.

If you want to help FAF out, this is a pretty relaxed way where you can make the workload as easy or hard as you’d like. Just join my Discord or PM me and I’ll add you to the team.

Trainers:Not much to say here. I’ve updated the trainer list on the FAF Wiki Page and made it (hopefully) a lot easier for new players to navigate who they can talk to. The lack of inactive players also makes it easier for veteran players to feel confident linking this page to new players.

I’d like to thank some players for going above and beyond, most of all OxideIon who put in a great deal of effort to update a lot of the FAF wiki guides (including videos!) and he easily made me look like a bum sitting around doing nothing. Special mentions to Dog for his own guide as well. I also appreciate other trainers such as wtfnoob, endranii, and uteten for proactively helping people when they ask for assistance and not just sitting on their avatar.

Ladder:We’ve got a map sheet of about 225 ladder capable maps with comments and ratings of the map. We rated maps on gameplay, variety of playable styles, and aesthetics. Likewise, we began discussing new ladder systems.

Special mentions here go to Petric who puts in a great deal of effort to make the pools include a wide array of gameplay variety, though Jagged, Mozart, and turin were also great assets in creating the pools/map lists. This also means you can blame petric for the bad maps but thank me for the good ones.

We’ve also begun discussing new ladder systems and how exactly we plan on presenting the options to the community. Currently we plan on having a small/medium/large/extra-large pool with all options including an option to veto. Of course, the veto quantity depends on the size of the pool. We also plan on introducing a “no-repeat” system regardless of the pool chosen. All of this will however not be possible until we get an individual willing to maintain the python client (or get ice up for a java migration) so if you really want a new ladder, it’s the dev side you should help out with.

Communications:FlyingThunder has helped me out in refining the FAF Wiki, a pretty monumental task so if you want to help FAF out and put your uh very useful English degree to work, come join us on the Discord!

The other members of the communication team don’t do anything but demand their maps be in the ladder pool and make memes. But they’re still important!!!

Most of my future objectives will just revolve around continuing wiki development/ladder system/tournaments until something special comes along. If something does, I’ll be sure to update this thread.

You can join this Discord to suggest, complain, or help me out on one of the 4 teams that are going to be under me. What are these teams going to be? Well, glad to see you are interested in reading about them!

The teams with a brief description:Tournament DirectorsSelf-explanatory. This team contains all the individuals that are responsible for organizing the community's tournaments and maintaining a competitive scene. This team will be receiving some funding from the FAF Patreon which will allow for various small-cash prize tournaments to be hosted. My plan is to have this team somewhat tied with the Trainer Team as I do not want competitive 1v1/2v2 tournaments to be hosted in rating ranges where trainers are not training players. While TDs can still host independent tournaments for any rating range, I want FAF Patreon funds to go towards tournaments that will focus on advancing a desire to improve the general FAF skill level. This team will be headed by me.

TrainersThe team of players that are actively working to improve players of various rating ranges. And yes, actively does mean doing more than telling players to play ladder. My plans for the Training Team will largely revolve around the quantity of players that are willing to assist me in the endeavor of training. The amount of manpower I have available to me will likely be a major consideration in determining how this team will operate. This team will be headed by biass.

Ladder TeamThe team responsible for collecting information about maps for the ladder pool while also reviewing selected maps. These individuals are meant to be highly skilled individuals and/or individuals with an excellent basis in mapping. However, the most important qualification is a capability to form an opinion about the value of a map and properly defend it against the criticism of others. This team will be headed by Petric.

CommunicationThe team responsible for collecting data and information from individuals in the community while also updating sources of information such as the wiki. This team will largely be focused on long-term plans that revolve around the other 3 teams. While it also has everyday duties revolving around refining and updating material on FAF, the biggest responsibility is creating excellent surveys/polls/questions for proper data collection. This team will be headed by me.

Overall I will be primarily focused on the Ladder Team and the Trainer Team for the coming weeks. I want to stabilize those two so that things can progress smoothly with the other teams. The Ladder Team will continue to utilize the current ladder pool system, however, polls will be created later on to determine if FAF would prefer a veto system with the current map pool size, a larger pool, a larger pool with a veto system implemented, or various other systems.

The Training Team will receive a very drastic change as I will be removing all players currently considered trainers except for a few that were selected beforehand for activity. I am doing this in order to get an accurate assessment of the manpower available to me and who is willing to actively train people.

If you have any interest in joining one of the above teams, you can PM me on FAF/Discord. Anyone is welcome to join the PC Discord, you do not need to be part of the 4 teams. It is far easier for me to keep track of complaints by players and what they view as major issues if they are posted in Discord rather than simply #aeolus or FAF's Discord.

]]>2018-05-21T18:31:00+02:002018-05-21T18:31:00+02:00http://forums.faforever.com/viewtopic.php?t=12171&p=163694#p163694GyleProbably needs no introduction. Watches like professional entertainment with a voice to rival any sports commentator. Uploads multiple casts weekly. Good range and brilliant 'branding' of videos from ladder 1v1 to 'average joes' and 'epics' (>1hour long games)http://www.youtube.com/user/felixlighta (1080p)

BRNKoINSANITY [BRNKoINSANITY]Very active with multiple uploads a week. Good mix of casts with focus leaning towards entertainment rather than deep strategic analysis. Other uploads not FAF but often enjoyable to SC players with regular RTS reviews in the never ending quest to find a 'better Supreme Commander'. (Also well labelled, I'm serious having a clear naming convention for your casts doubles your view count). He is also a Full Time streaming over on twitchYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/user/BRNKoINSANITY (1080p)Twitch: twitch.tv/thebrnk

Speed2cz [speed2]Solid player with focus on team game casts POV. Has since began his [Learning FAF] series which is his commentary over various team and 1v1 games. Also has 'School of FAF' series which can be found on youtube or at the forum link below.https://www.youtube.com/user/speed2cz/videos (720p)

Zock (Inactive 2 Years)Lessons and casting from FAF's best player. Uploads range from 4 a week to 1 per 6 months. So he'll be staying in the 'active' section.Featuring lessons with other players (you'll learn a lot) as well as casts focusing on detailed analysis of games. Usually uploads and casts in batches for events like tournaments.http://www.youtube.com/user/zock666666/videos (720p-1080p)

17Luxun [Lu_Xun_17] (Inactive 2 Years)Really good POV replay casts from one of FAF's best players. Uploads between once a week to once per 6 months. All casts 1v1 ladder matches. Great strategy discussion and all round commentary with a vibrant voice to keep it entertaining. Also nothing quite explains the genuine happiness of hearing Luxun say 'Scoot'.http://www.youtube.com/user/17LuXun/videos (1080p)

TA4LIFE (Inactive 2 Years)Sadly hasn't uploaded in a long time. Longest running caster with the largest volume of videos by far. Very varied with excellent commentary on strategy throughout. Tutorial series', POV learning series', recommended for everyone.Quality casting with excellent strategy analysis.http://www.youtube.com/user/praisegugleourmaster/videos (1080p)

ColonelSheppard (Inactive 3 Years)One of the best tutorial series' out there by the player who literally wrote the thread on how to play for newbie 'Help, i'm new!' - in the forum. As well as some funny casts and entertaining short videos and a couple of podcasts.http://www.youtube.com/user/SupremestCommander/videos (1080p)

ZaphodX (Inactive 4 Years)Moved totally to Planetary Annihilation, but still has a huge FA playlist from months ago. No Longer active in FA, just thought deserved a mention if people want tto check out some older videos. https://www.youtube.com/user/ZaphodX1

Nibelosky(Inactive 2 Years)Decent casts with nice quality and has been uploading steadily for 6 months. Relatively unsure with earlier casts but can clearly tell the quality is improving with later casts. One to watch. Also has put in nice effort with intro.https://www.youtube.com/user/Nick0836/videos

Minimum 720p. 1080p will have priority over you.Minimum of 5 full game casts [Parts 1-5 count as 1]Active within last 2 months. Unless your on an extended leave or vacation or such I'll move inactive casters to the archive section. Best practise is to say what your upload schedule is in your videos like Gyle telling us he is moving house or BRNK saying is CPU is whack and he's waiting on thermo paste. Exceptions; so far just Zock and Gyle. Zock goes through phases and Gyle has a family now and has made it clear his schedule is going to be a bit less now.

Labeling helps! Have a naming convention! Seriously this like doubles your view count.

Quality. This does not equal personal preference. TA's efficiency calculations might send you to sleep and you might want to cry when Gyle misses an experimental but that's not what it's being rated on. Speech being clear and unbroken, good 'camera shots', quality production (no hissing, editing, clear etc is. )

b) Getting on the list - if you fit all the above PM & post in this thread me and I'll put you on. I'll periodically update and put new casters/move the list about but if I don't know about you I won't be able to put you on obviously. YouTube only, not twitch!

I want to use this post to introduce myself as the New Maps&Mods Councillor. Along with me, comes Ike and DrIvoRoobotnik . Ike for Maps and DrIvoRobotnik for Mods. So we have someone dedicated to each side. We make decisions together and help fill one another's weak spots.

I have created a little home in Discord for Mappers and Modders alike, where we can do our work of;1) Looking into the FAF Vault for Bad Maps/Mods2) Instructing Mappers/Modders on creating good maps/mods & Version control3) Enabling Mappers & Modders by providing a resource for them to come to, for ideas and fixes to problems encountered4) Creating teams to do the actual testing itself.

As can be seen from point 2, we do want to influence map/mod makers, when they are designing their work. The main reason for this is, that there is no point clearing the Vault if it is going to be filled up with rubbish behind us, as we go along.

The Vault contains some real Gems, that players have forgotten about or simply not used before. We hope to find such gems and pass them onto to players to host in lobbies or encourage Casters & Streamers to highlight them to everyone.

As expected the process is slow and long, I did not expect it to be instant, so an ounce of patience is required by all, as we are a work-in-progress.We have started the process of creating teams of Testers who will test maps and mods. These reports will be compiled and made available for all. There is nothing final with our decisions, upon request, we can review any decision made.Teams consist of players of all description, from young to old and from new to experienced, they all share a passion for faf.People might wonder at some of my decisions with regards to how I do things and with who I get them done. This is my own personal choice and I ask all member to trust me as I trust you. Trust is core to FAF, without it, we would all fall apart.Also, the community I have created in Discord is a quiet hard working one, please remember that if you happen to visit.There is a place for Memes in FAF Discord and any pwn, please dm me for sampling.

People will have many questions and concerns, this is understandable and welcomed. It should, however, be put into the relevant context and made in a polite way. We are all volunteers and are using our free time ( if we have any), we are also developing as we go along and your contribution ( criticism) may help us on our way.

As regards to myself, I am an open person, and can be persuaded by a logical and rational argument, please do not feel that I will dismiss your concerns or suggestions, out of hand. Far from it. I am completely the opposite. The main reason for this is that I see a vast amount of work already conducted by the hard working devs, mods and general busybodies that hold the core of faf together. Without their dedication and tenacity, faf wouldn't be where it is today. I want to personally thank them all.With this much already here, it is easy to forget when things run smoothly, but have an angst when things go awry.This is the nature of people, we are all different.I will implement solutions in my own way, it is easier that way and more truthful to my nature.

So, with that in mind, I will make some feel uncomfortable and some will be very pleased. I'm sorry, but I will have to disappoint some, please understand that this is a process and when the ship runs smooth, people will forget the troubled waters and just enjoy the remaining journey.

Here's to a smooth voyage.

PS My name change from MisterK to SilentWarrior, is purely for playing reasons. As it's been pointed out, my gameplay is a little weak and I could do with some (Much) improvement.

The costs for the new servers will be covered by our Patreon income (feel free to become a Patron today!).

Moving about 600G of data and 30 services doesn’t happen within the blink of an eye. While we’ll do our best to keep the downtime as short as possible expect FAF to be down the whole Monday. If you like to receive notifications about status updates, make sure to sign up on faf.statuspage.io.

What’s newThis is a bugfix update. Several small issues got solved and all missions that were not expanding the next part should work now as well. That includes Morax finally leaving his base in Prothyon-16.

Several voice files got updated few days ago with fixes to the mixed dialogue cues. There might be still a few of them wrong, please report it, if you encounter some.

Coop Slack ChannelIf anyone is intrested into making a new mission, improving the current ones or helping with voice overs, there’s a #coop channel on the FAF Slack. Slack is a tool that all FAF developers and contributors use to coordinate our efforts. For joining PM me (speed2) your e-mail adress either in the chat or on the forums and you will recieve an invitation.

What’s next?In last few days I was doing some improvements to the base manager that controls the AI, more specific, TML and Nuke control to spice things up for the players. I also did some work on Novax mission but it will take much more time to release the full version as I need to change the second part completelly to be happy with it.

]]>2017-05-27T12:55:19+02:002017-05-27T12:55:19+02:00http://forums.faforever.com/viewtopic.php?t=14654&p=149693#p149693This is a copy of the news post FAF Client: 0.12.5 Release Candidate with translations

after initial field testing elicited no reports of major issues, the 0.12.5 Version of the Python Client has now been promoted to Release Candidate.

This version contains a big bag of bugfixes and improvements, for example:

New themeable login widgetBetter connection / login logicBetter “Play” view (Game sorting)Better “Replays” view (Display, sorting and searching)You will be prompted to install it the next time you start FAF, or you can download it directly:

Download 0.12.5 from Github [Github Release Info]

If you have a problem with this client version, please report it to the Tech Support Forum!

You can also revert back to version 0.12.4 by downloading and reinstalling it.

Today we have another hotfix for you. It has a few small changes that were ready so I’ve put them in to get them to you guys, but the main purpose of this patch is this:

“-Fixed a typo that is probably responsible for the rare sim freeze bug that has been happening since 3680”

I can’t stress enough how hard this was to detect, and enormous thanks to MrNukealizer. Without him I think we would have been going for days. I also can’t stress enough that although we’re fairly confident this is the cause, this bug was very, very hard to reproduce. It was very rare. This means we’re not 100% sure it is fixed with this correction, even though it’s in the right place and is the right kind of thing to break the game in that way. If after this patch your game freezes with no errors, but still lets you move the camera around, please let us know on the forums, on slack, on github, or by PMing a moderator.

The good news is that we found it. More good news is that you get a bunch of small updates a few weeks early.

The best news is that I can tease something we’re working on for the next big feature pack: